Yesterday reported about how Catalyst 7.10 was said to offer DirectX 10 CrossFire performance improvements of up to 80%, and now that the drivers have actually arrived it seems that this is very much the case. ATI has managed to tune the performance considerably and been able to achieve some quite extreme improvements with some games. The release notes contains information that says that the latest generation of video cards will see improvements of 30-80 percent in certain games, but of course also an overall improvement. Company of Heroes boosts the best improvement with 80 % better DX 10 CrossFire performance.
Most of the games that will see significant improvements are DirectX 10 games and with CrossFire configurations with ATI’s graphics cards. In other words, there haven’t been room for optimizations with the previous drivers. Those who want a quick overview of the list of improvements, which games that are affected and by how much can check out the list of performance optimizations below;
The following performance improvements are noticed with Catalyst™ 7.10:
- Battlefield 2142: CrossFire™ performance improves 5-23% on ATI Radeon™ HD2600, HD2400 and ATI Radeon™ X1300/X1550
- BioShock DX10 CrossFire™ performance improves 70% or more on all ATI Radeon™ HD2x00 series of products
- Call of Duty 2: performance improves up to 6.7% on both single card and CrossFire™ ATI Radeon™ HD2600 and ATI Radeon™ HD2400 configurations
- Call of Juarez DX10: CrossFire™ performance improves up to 42% and single card performance improves up to 34% on all ATI Radeon™ HD2x00 series of products
- Company of Heroes DX10 CrossFire™ performance improves up to 80% on all ATI Radeon™ HD2x00 series of products and single card performance improves as much as 31% on ATI Radeon™ HD2900 and ATI Radeon™ HD2600 products
- Enemy Territory: Quake Wars CrossFire™ performance improves as much as 23% on ATI Radeon™ X1x00 series products and single card performance improves as much as 23% on both ATI Radeon™ HD2x00 and ATI Radeon™ X1x00 series of products
- FEAR CrossFire™ performance improves as much as 16% on ATI Radeon™ X1950XTX, X1650XT, HD2400 and X1300/X1550
- Lost Planet DX10 CrossFire™ performance improves 20% or greater on all ATI Radeon™ HD2x00 series of products
- Supreme Commander CrossFire™ performance improves up to 30% on all ATI Radeon™ HD2x00 and ATI Radeon™ X1x00 series products. ATI Radeon™ X1650 and X1300/X1550 see even greater improvements of 82% or more
- World In Conflict DX10 CrossFire™ performance improves 14-67% or more and single card performance improves 20% or more on ATI Radeon™ HD2900XT and ATI Radeon™ HD2600 products
- World in Conflict DX9 CrossFire™ performance improves up to 70% or more on all ATI Radeon™ HD2x00 products
The new drivers can be fetched from ATI’s website for all your favorite operating systems.
